The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art

Publication date: 1770

Topics: Botanical illustration -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800, Drawing books -- Specimens -- Early works to 1800, Drawing -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800, Painting -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800, Botanical illustration, Drawing books, Drawing -- Study and teaching, Painting -- Study and teaching, Great Britain

Publisher: London : Printed for Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennett, no. 53 Fleet Street, Carn. Bowles, no. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, Robt. Wilkinson, no. 58 Cornhill

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

16 pages, [1], 60, [1] leaves of plates : 23 cm

Title page is engraved and hand colored

The engravings are hand colored

Robert Sayer & John Bennett worked as partners from 1770 to 1784. See: Skelton, R.A. Decorative printed maps of the 15th to 18th centuries

Below imprint: Price 6s. & colour'd 1£. 1s. 0d

Text and plates were later copied and published under the title 'Bowles's florist'. Cf. Henrey